Comments on: Site Specific Optimization Tips from Google Adsense

By: Ahmed Bilal

Ahmed Bilal — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:26:35 +0000

Marios – yup, cant get rid of recommendations either – something for Google to look at?

By: Habitaquo

Habitaquo — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:14:45 +0000

… I got the same last month, thanks for the information.

By: Marios Alexandrou

Marios Alexandrou — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:55:34 +0000

I received the same “tip”. My list of exclusions is small (5 or so) and they’re all for dating sites. I don’t want that type of advertising showing and so Google’s recommendation was really just a waste of my time.

I also can’t get rid of the recommendation from my dashboard. I’ve selected that I don’t want the tip to show, but it still shows. Also, I think there should be a rating where we can indicate whether the tip was useful or not.

By: Ahmed Bilal

Ahmed Bilal — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:08:21 +0000

I got a message saying that I should have more ad units on my pages.

Like you said, it’s nothing new and its aimed at AdSense newbies. They’re trying to help users and that’s a good thing.

However, as an automated solution it fails to take into account what effect those suggestions would have on the site itself. Maybe adding another ad unit will hurt my EPC. Maybe it’ll piss readers off. Maybe removing the filtered sites will cause a return of earlier problems.

There should be a warning telling people to use their own common sense and knowledge as well :)

By: domain inform

domain inform — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:28:14 +0000

Yeah I just got my report for April an I had something like that. do you really think it helps at all I didn’t think it was telling me any new information at all! anyway thanks for the sharing that with use!